Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(3):170-172; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.3.170
© 2001 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Nelson, N. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Nelson, N. J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 3, 170-172, February 7, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Recent Studies Show Cell Phone Use Is Not Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

Nancy J. Nelson

Another reassuring piece of evidence that cellular phones do not cause cancer appears in this issue of the Journal. Researchers evaluated whether a cohort of nearly half a million cellular phone subscribers in Denmark had a higher incidence of cancer than the general population, with a particular interest in leukemia and cancers of the brain and salivary gland. The answer was a resounding no (see article, p. 203).

This article comes on the heels of two case–control studies reported in December by the American Health Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, both of which also found no association between cell phone use and the risk of brain tumors.

"We’re trying to do everything we can to be prudent and evaluate this brand new technology that humans have never experienced before in their history," said David Savitz, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Case–Control Studies

Exposure Time


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?